Three Years on the Plains
Subtitle: Observation of Indians, 1867-1870 (The Western Frontier Library, 66)
Contributors: Jerome A. Greene (Foreword)
Edition: Red River edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780806134994
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indians of North America; Native Americans - Plains; History; History - General History; West (U.S.); History: American; Western & Pacific Coast states; Native American; Great Plains; Frontier and pioneer life; Native Americans
First sentence: The University of Oklahoma Press's republication of Edmund B. Tuttle's Three Years on the Plains: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 acknowledges a continuing interest among the public in the Indian wars of the trans-Mississippi West, including contemporary perspectives of those struggles.
Description: "History has its heroes and its villains, but most of all, it has its witnesses. As the post chaplain at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming Territory from 1867 to 1870, the Reverend Edmund B. Tuttle was an eyewitness to the evolving relationship between the U.S. military and the American Indians on the northern high plains, particularly the Sioux and the Cheyennes. In 1873, he wrote about the events he had experienced, both historic and commonplace, during his time at the fort." "Tuttle knew personally many of the individuals involved in the various Indian-Anglo conflicts during the 1860s. His writings furnish new information on the military occupation of the Bozeman Trail and on the Fetterman fight of 1866, when Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defeated and killed Captain Fetterman and eighty men. Tuttle's book also includes more peaceful events, such as Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud's visit to New York City and the 1868 peace negotiations at Fort Laramie. Tuttle even reproduces the translations of American Indian testimony given at the various meetings between Indian leaders and military and government officials." "Tuttle's writings are filled with indispensable details about frontier life and American Indian customs. He describes the particular tool used by an Indian woman for buffalo tanning, for example, and specifies the technique used by an American Fur Company trader to rig the scale at Fort Laramie."--BOOK JACKET.